Ukraine, Kyiv will receive 121 anti-Russian “Phoenix Ghost” drones
The UAVs were developed in record time by AVEVEX Aerospace, led by ISR specialists. They are similar to Switchblades, but appear to have unique characteristics.
Russia, Putin orders to strengthen infrastructure in the Kola Peninsula
This is where the Northern Fleet, currently engaged against Ukraine, is based. Objective: to finish the works by 2024 to fight NATO in the Arctic.
Ukraine: Sweden and Finland may soon join NATO
There is talk of June 2022 (Madrid summit). To counter Russia, a new “Gorizia Line” and an InfoWar center similar to the CCDCOE in Tallinn are being looked at.
Cyber Warfare, defense industries under attack by pro-Russia APTs
The boost of attacks-data breaches confirm that the phenomenon is growing and the crisis in Ukraine will worsen it. Will we move from cyber espionage to desruptions?
Cyber Espionage, IronHusky targets Defense and IT companies with MysterySnail
Kaspersky cybersecurity experts: The Chinese APT exploits the CVE-2021-40449 zero-day vulnerability in the Win32k kernel driver and the malware to escalate privileges.
Cyber Espionage, Iran DEV-0343 targets US-Israeli technology companies
Microsoft cybersecurity experts: The threat actors conducted extensive password spraying against more than 250 Office 365 tenants, included GIS and Persian Gulf ports.
White-hat hackers can now target all publicly accessible U.S. Defense information systems
The DoD expanded the VDP Program to let cybersecurity researchers testing also the less “famous” ones, but often strategic as the others.
Defense and Security goes on vacation
The publications are suspended, except for particular events, from 10 to 24 August. In the meantime, we are preparing some news in the Defense/terrorism and cyber field for the second half of 2020.
Happy Holidays and Happy 2020 from Defense and Security
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Merry Christmas from Defense and Security
Thanks to all of our loyal readers and to the people who protect us. From terrorism and wars, passing trough the cyber threats. We'll back on December 27th.